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Can Delivery Contractors Now Burn Your Mail?

Can Delivery Contractors Now Burn Your Mail?

The Ponderer Stuff ran an article yesterday about a woman who was disgusted her 11-year-old daughter was asked to deliver an “extreme religious publication” on her paper round. Because they disagreed with the publication, rather than delivering it (as her daughter is legally and contractually obliged to do,

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How the World Ran Out of Semiconductors

How the World Ran Out of Semiconductors

Hamza Mudassir Cambridge Judge Business School Hamza Mudassir the co-founder and managing director of technology and strategy firm, platypodes.io. He has held several senior strategy and product management positions in leading technology companies in Europe and Asia. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Judge Business School,

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The Great Reopening

Edward Peter Stringham aier.org Edward Peter Stringham is President of the American Institute for Economic Research,  Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation at Trinity College, and Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is editor of two books and author of more than 70 journal articles, book

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China’s Role in Global Lockdowns: The Smoking Gun

China’s Role in Global Lockdowns: The Smoking Gun

AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. With a global reach and influence, AIER is dedicated to developing and promoting the ideas of pure freedom and

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The Most Expensive Con the World Has Ever Seen

Macca Are the media in this country utterly stupid or knowingly lying by omission? I believe it is a combination of both. They have given up the right to be called journalists. That title long ago was given to people who were nonpartisan and gave the facts that were available

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Coronavirus: Will Immunity Rapidly Fade or Last a Lifetime?

Coronavirus: Will Immunity Rapidly Fade or Last a Lifetime?

Luke O’Neill Trinity College Dublin Luke O’Neill is an immunologist in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. His research area is the molecular basis of inflammatory diseases. He has written several popular science books including his most recent ‘Never Mind the B*ll*cks, Here’

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Looney NY Times Goes Woke on Steroids

Looney NY Times Goes Woke on Steroids

Clay Waters PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Clay Waters was the director of Times Watch a former project of the Media Research Center. A half-dozen timeworn titles by beloved children’s author Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, will no longer be offered by the author’s estate for

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Thoughts from a Funeral Director

A BFD reader recently received an email from their child who works in a funeral home in the UK. The email covers a number of things, but below are the most pertinent parts that I think will be of interest. As of now, we are still at the highest level

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The Left Declares War on Gas

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The so-called CLEAN Future Act just introduced by the Democrat leaders of the house energy Committee calls for the elimination of gas-fired electric power generation, some immediately,

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How Media Distorts Science: COVID on Surfaces

How Media Distorts Science: COVID on Surfaces

Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Covid hysteria has highlighted the strange human tendency to want to believe the worst. No matter how bad something is, we are fascinated by the possibility it could be even worse. Journalists are subject to the same psychological trait, but are also driven by

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Canada Public Health Wants Children in Solitary Confinement

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it,

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Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

John Rofe Dear Leader of The Opposition, I favour the use of technology and a re-emphasis on renewable energy as the best means to a sustainable future for New Zealand’s children and grandchildren. I deplore the conspiracies of those who are party to the UN IPCC climate fraud,

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Stuff Resorts to Bagging & Bullying People to Get the Government’s Favour

Waikanae watcher waikanaewatch.org Readers of Stuff’s increasingly dreadful journalism will likely have seen the article on its website from 3 March headed “Covid-19: Destiny Church leaders fleeing Auckland lockdown ‘completely irresponsible‘.” That headline came from a question one of their hacks asked of cabinet minister Chris Hipkins

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Home Is Where the Heart Is for Dutch Euthanasia

Home Is Where the Heart Is for Dutch Euthanasia

Michael Cook mercatornet.com There’s always something new that you can learn about how euthanasia works at the coalface. An indignant letter to JAMA Surgery by two doctors from a hospital in the Netherlands led MercatorNet back to a 2017 letter in Transplant International about home-based euthanasia + organ

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Durex Condoms: How Their Teenage Immigrant Inventor Was Forgotten by History

Durex Condoms: How Their Teenage Immigrant Inventor Was Forgotten by History

Jessica Borge School of Advanced Study Jessica Borge, Digital Collections (Scholarship) Manager at King’s College London Archives and Research Collections; Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study Around 975 Durex condoms are sold every minute. The global condom market is predicted to grow to over US$11

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